do-gooder
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The 600 attendees who had crammed themselves into a D.C. town house that evening were typical Washington creatures: political staffers, journalists, do-gooder nonprofit types.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025
Superman’s stymied do-gooder impulse feels right for an era where you can’t say “Save the whales” without some genius asking why you don’t care about plankton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
One commentator said now that the "do-gooder" pandoro with pink icing sugar had been exposed as junk, Italians were wondering where that left "the princess of influencers as well as queen of social media".
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2023
The descriptions of Bankman-Fried by the prosecution's three star witnesses contradict the 31-year-old former billionaire's pre-arrest reputation as a nerdy do-gooder who wanted to be a responsible actor in the rough-and-tumble crypto space.
From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2023
“I was tired of being a wussy little do-gooder and I wanted out.”
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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